The Apollo 13 mission remains one of the most dramatic episodes in the history of human spaceflight. Originally planned as NASA’s third mission to land astronauts on the Moon, Apollo 13 instead turned ...
Surrounded by a vast dark expanse, huddled in sleeping bags with three of your friends in a space the size of a five-person tent. This isn’t a camping trip ‒ it’s life on Orion ‒ the spacecraft ...
NASA’s Space Launch System (SLS) rocket carrying the Orion spacecraft and four astronauts lifted off from Launch Complex 39B at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday at 6:35 p.m. EDT, beginning ...
The Orion spacecraft that’s taking the four Artemis II astronauts around the moon and back is the largest crewed capsule ever sent beyond low Earth orbit – with habitable space roughly equal to that ...
The 1968 photo of our blue planet inspired the global environmental movement. Now, NASA hopes to recapture that magic on their 10-day mission.